• travelled hundreds of miles (out of state) alone, stayed in hotel alone for duration
• presented to professors, grad students, educators and professionals
• made personal and professional contacts 
• contributed substantively to workshop
• influenced curricula for graduate level courses, professional education courses

After a Friday of record (not the worst ever but noteworthy) at work and a pub run with work mates after that I came home to go downstairs into my flat and play Star Wars game until I was too tired to make out the buttons. Cheerfully this coincided about with bedtime and no other demands were made of remaining sanity before the noises started in ( Read more... )

A follow-on to the risk catalogue from previous assignment and DW post. Again here is a messy blog post on methodology and what the cat was doing (yowling) while download LibO to my iMac and as I struggle to put together the formal report specified in the assignment.
LibO lastName entry points

I started off this morning at the VW dealership with ( Read more... )

If the core attributes for test design in scenario testing are Appropriate complexity, credibility, motivation, validity and value and the desirable characteristic is ease of evaluation , then I'd say ( Read more... )

From the online manual for Presentation and relevant sections of the main Docs manual  we can harvest about 36 declarations of features which are mostly Functions in Product Elements:

• Share presentations with your friends and coworkers. Upload and convert existing presentations to Google Docs format.
• Download your presentations as a PDF ( Read more... )

Unfortunately the next assignment is repelling me forcefully. Even after a few flybys as I try to actually dig into it it's not passing my "this is dumb" filters and is being rejected by a voice in my head yelling about how dumb it is and telling me to run or find something productive to do.

To help us learn how to digest and actually get useful ( Read more... )

I worked through the lab assignment's questions and now need to covert this into a list of risks for other to critique. This was so much fun to write I wanted to hang onto it anyway even as an intermediate product. My actual submission for class is below the cut.1) The variable of lastname is input (optionally) in the wizard that runs on first ( Read more... )

Comment left on threatpost story: Apple Trips Up Again on Security https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apple-trips-again-security-110911#comment-117253
There's a pretty serious flaw in the argument presented in this article starting ( Read more... )

Hi everyone!

I am quite excited (and nervous) to be diving into a new BBST course after how much I learned from the previous ones (and how much work they were).

I'm a security analyst in a small business unit of a really large company and before that I was in IT as a system administrator and what all else.
Cheerfully enough I live within walking ( Read more... )

lj to ebook
Starts with ljmigrate which is easy enough to use to backup your LJ (please do) to files. Mine happen to be on a webserver but that's not really important to the process... it went something like this
pwd ##/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS ( Read more... )